--Letters received at
Washington from
Platte county, Nebraska, give an account of the murder of a white man and boy by the Onepapa and Black Feet
Sioux of the
Missouri.
It appears that some four or five soldiers, who had been discharged from Camp Floyd, N. T., were traveling to the States, and on the evening of the 4th they were accosted by three
Indians, who shook hands with them and appeared quite friendly.
After riding in company for a short time, the Indians rode ahead and disappeared.
When the white men approached the bluffs, near the
Platte, they saw the Indians partly concealed, in the attitude of firing upon them.
They attempted to escape, but unfortunately were so near them that one of the white men was pierced with two arrows, and the horse of the other was wounded.
The
Indians subsequently retreated a short distance, at the approach of other white men; but afterwards returned and captured the horses and baggage of these two men. The wounded man survived but twenty-four hours after receiving the wound.
The next day the war party of these same Indians murdered a boy of
Louis Ganards, at the
Mormon Crossing of the
North Platte, thirty miles above this post, and stole four horses at the
North Platte Bridge, five miles below the
Mormon Crossing.
The murdered boy was at the time holding horses for his father.
